Miriam Toews

Miriam Toews ( born 1964 in Steinbach, Manitoba ) is a Canadian author and freelance journalist. She lives and works in Winnipeg. She was awarded in 2008 for her novel The Flying Trautman among others, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

Life and work

Toews studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of King 's College in Halifax, and has worked as a freelance journalist for the press and radio. With her ​​novel A Complicated Kindness (2004), she became known internationally. The novel remained for over a year on the Canadian bestseller list and was awarded the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the most important literary prize in Canada, excellent. In the novel, A Complicated Kindness is about the 16- year-old daughter of Russian Mennonites who dreams of breaking out of the confines of their small-town world to hang out with Lou Reed in the slums of New York City. 2005, this novel under the title A complicated act of love by Berlin Verlag also published in German language. The translator Christiane Buchner in their work also placed great emphasis on the correct reproduction of the numerous quotations in the language of the Russian Mennonites ( Plautdietsch ).

In autumn 2006, Toews participated in filming the movie, Set of Carlos Reygadas light part. In addition to Maria Pankratz from Espelkamp Toews is one of the two ( lay ) leading ladies of probably the first movie in plaut Dietscher language.

Reception at the Mennonite

Mennonites take the novel A complicated act of love by Miriam Toews on different. While he is little known in conservative circles, the novel will be appreciated by others as significant literary examination of the author with her Mennonite origin.

Works (selection)

  • Summer of My Amazing Luck. Turnstone Press, 1996
  • Small city spat (A Boy of Good Breeding ). Berlin -Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8270-0731-5
  • Swing Low: A Life. Vintage Canada, 2000
  • A complicated act of love (A Complicated Kindness ). Berlin -Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8270-0598-1
  • The flying Trautman ( The Flying Troutman's ). Berlin -Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8270-0807-7
  • Little bird, pounding heart ( Irma Voth ). Berlin -Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8270-1029-2
  • Mr T., the sparrow and the cares of the world. The life of my father. Übers C. Buchner, M. Tichny. Berlin -Verlag, Berlin 2013

Awards

  • Governor General's Award for A Complicated Kindness
  • Giller Prize ( nominated ) for A Complicated Kindness
  • McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award for Swing Low: A Life
  • Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non- Fiction for Swing Low: A Life
  • McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award for A Boy of Good Breeding
  • Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour ( nominated ) for Summer of My Amazing Luck
  • John Hirsch Award for Summer of My Amazing Luck
  • National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Humour
  • A Complicated Kindness emerged victorious from the selection of Canada Reads 2006, an initiative of singer-songwriter, poet and publisher John K. Samson forth.
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